A potted history of Medsin
1950s-1970s
- IFMSA is formed
- British Medical Students Association is founding member
- First IFMSA GA in London
- Rex Crossley from UK is first president of IFMSA
- 1954-5 Alan Gilmour, UK is president of IFMSA
- 1957-8 Bernard Hill, UK is IFMSA Standing Committee Director for Population
- 1959-60 Graham Lister, UK is president of IFMSA (and several other UK officials).
- 1960 Exchange Officers Meeting in Edinburgh
- 1969 Geoffrey Lloyd and Bob Graham President and Vice-President of IFMSA
- 1970 General Secretariat of IFMSA moved to London
- 1970 President, Sec Gen and Treasurer all from UK
- 1971-1973 ? BMSA dissolves
- 1973 British Medics Working Party attends IFMSA meeting as observers
1980s
- Nothing known of UK involvement in IFMSA
- IFMSA struggles to survive…
1990s
- 1991 UK has a member of IFMSA - National Association of Medical Students (NAMS) International Officer reports to IFMSA that UK cannot offer exchanges
- 1991 International Officer – Rob Hadden, Oxford
- 1993-1994 Wigs Bateman attends IFMSA Conference in Alexandria, Egypt and decides we should be involved…
- 1993-1994 Jess Westall, Tim Baker, Rachel Lindley and Wigs start a few local projects in Sheffield
- 1993-1994 Medact and Mike Rowson also developing student groups – UCL and Georges
- 1993-1994 Nottingham set up exchanges
- 1995 IFMSA has an official from the UK - Liaison Officer to WHO Nick Shenker
1996-97
Sheffield, Georges, UCL and Nottingham students get together…
…MedSIN (Medical Students International Network) was born
1997-98
- MM97 in Slovenia
- AM98 in Egypt (pictured left)
- Became a candidate member of IFMSA at AM97 in Athens
- First president Wigs Bateman (Sheffield)
1999
- Small national conference at UCL
- UK Gained Full Membership of IFMSA at AM99 in Mexico
- Committee Co-ordinators Arti Maini (Georges) and Rachel Lindley (Sheffield) Secretary – Tim Baker (Sheffield) – Pete (current national committee)’s older brother!
1999-2000
- National Conference in Sheffield Committee: Coordinators: Vic Wykes (UCL) and Mike Moneypenny (Dundee) Treasurer: Chris Hopkins (UCL) News: Andy Khodakabus (Liverpool)
- IFMSA Training Support Division Director is Zana Khan from UK
- Jubilee 2000 campaign: Global chain reaction. Sarah Finer
- MM2000 in Finland
- AM2000 in Portugal
2000-2001
- First big national conference in Edinburgh (>300 people)
- Chris Hopkins coordinator
- MedSIN grows – 18 Member Branches
- MM01 in Malta
- AM01 in Denmark – wrote MedSIN Action plan for restructure
2001-2002
- National Conference in Cambridge
- First full national committee elected
- MY PLESHA 2 – Sexpression conference
- First big project conference
- Homed National Conference
- Training Conference in Manchester
- Marrow started
- MM02 in Yugoslavia
- AM02 in Taiwan
2002-2003
- New committee elected
- Birmingham National Conference
- Cardiff International Health Conference
- Medsin-BMA Joint Training Day
- MM2003 in Estonia
- AM 2003 in The Netherlands – Emily Spry (Georges) elected president IFMSA
2003-2004
- New committee elected
- Medsin formalised with Constitution and Bylaws
- First Medsin-UK General Assembly
- New Logo
- Name altered (Medsin-UK, opening up to non- medical students)
- Nottingham National conference
- London GH Conference
- MM04 in Venezuela
- AM04 in Macedonia
2004-2005
- New committee elected
- Branch Resource Pack
- New Website
- Logo made legal (grey cross!)
- First UK TNT (Training New Trainers)
- Glasgow National Conference
- Peninsula GH Conference
- MM05 Turkey
- AM05 in Egypt
- Teddy Bear Hospital first started in UK at Bart's
2005-2006
- New committee elected
- Medsin-UK gets charity status
- Leeds National Conference
- London GH Conference
- Leicester hosts IFMSA European Regional Meeting
- MM06 - Chile
- AM06 - Serbia - Won the bid to host UK AM07!
2006-2007
- New committee elected
- Medsin’s 10th Birthday Party
- Alumni launch
- Campaigns Team formed
- Hosted our first Campaigns Day
- Bristol National Conference
- Newcastle GH Conference
- First ever Regional Conferences
- MM07 - Australia
- AM07 - UK
Last updated on Thursday 08 November 2007 at 12:21.
